Canisters

Canisters are hardware units that are subcomponents of enclosures.

The system has node canisters. A node canister provides host interfaces, management interfaces, and SAS interfaces to the control enclosure. A node canister has the cache memory, the internal drives to store machine code and logs, and the processing power to run the virtualizing and management machine code. The left canister is identified as Canister 1. The right canister is identified as Canister 2.